Bragg is a single-member
electoral district
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for the
South Australian House of Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
. The seat is named after the eminent physicists Bragg –
William Henry and his son,
William Lawrence. The electorate is largely suburban and encompasses a significant portion of the
City of Burnside, stretching from the
east parklands of
Adelaide
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into the
Adelaide Hills. After the redistribution following the
2006 election, the boundary moved eastwards to include suburbs that had formerly been in the electorate of
Heysen and now borders
Kavel. Bragg currently includes the metropolitan suburbs of
Beaumont,
Burnside,
Cleland,
Dulwich
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Erindale,
Frewville
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Glenside,
Glenunga
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,
Greenhill,
Hazelwood Park,
Heathpool,
Horsnell Gully,
Leabrook
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Leawood Gardens,
Linden Park,
Marryatville
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Mount Osmond
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Rose Park,
Rosslyn Park,
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St Georges
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Stonyfell
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Toorak Gardens
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Tusmore,
Waterfall Gully
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Wattle Park and part of
Glen Osmond
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. (Previous suburbs prior to redistribution included
Auldana
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Beulah Park,
Kensington
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Kensington Park, and
Kensington Gardens
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.)
The electorate was first contested at the
1970 election as a replacement for the abolished, larger electorate of
Burnside, one of fifteen new electorates created in Adelaide to give the metropolitan area fairer representation. It has been held by the
Liberals and their predecessors, the
Liberal and Country League
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for its entire existence, and for most of that time has been the safest Liberal seat in the metropolitan area. The Liberals have always won outright majorities on the first count, and until
2022
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never won less than 60 percent of the two-party vote.
As a measure of the strong Liberal support in this seat, the Liberals easily retained it even in the Labor landslides of
1977
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1985
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and
2006
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, each time winning at least 55 percent of the primary vote. For example, in 2006 the Liberals suffered a swing of 6.8 percent in Bragg, but still comfortably retained it with a majority of 12.6 percent–the only safe metropolitan Liberal seat and one of only four safe Liberal seats statewide.
The seat has been held by only three members in its present incarnation, all of whom have gone on to serve in cabinet. Bragg's best-known member was its first,
David Tonkin
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, who served as
Premier of South Australia from 1979 to 1982. He resigned shortly after the Liberals lost the
1982 state election. At the ensuing
1983 Bragg by-election fellow Liberal
Graham Ingerson retained the seat without serious difficulty. Ingerson went on to become a minister under
Dean Brown
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and
John Olsen and served as
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under Olsen from 1996 to 1998. Ingerson retired in 2002 and was succeeded by incumbent
Vickie Chapman
Vickie Ann Chapman is a former Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia between the 2002 election and May 2022. Chapman served ...
, two time Liberal leadership challenger and two time Liberal deputy leader from 2006 until 2009 and again since 2013. In 2018 Chapman became Deputy Premier.
In 2022, however, the Liberal margin dropped to 58 percent, making it only fairly safe for the first time. It is still the largest Liberal margin for a metropolitan seat.
On 19 April 2022, Chapman announced her intention to resign from politics and parliament, forcing a
by-election
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, which was held on 2 July 2022.
Members for Bragg
Election results
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Bragg: 2018ABC profile for Bragg: 2018
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Electoral districts of South Australia
1970 establishments in Australia